Post #207525 by LavaLounger on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 8:20 AM

Ha ha......thanks for the list Huma..eh, can't remember the rest of the letters. I'll print out your list and stick it someplace handy.

I can't recall all the abbreviations and words I've skipped up to now, yes I'm TDD....(that dam dumb!) L-MAO.....and that's not a tiki drink either.

I laughed the hardest at someone's clever haiku of MaiTai....can't remember where I saw that but it was great, I wish I'd have copied it and framed it for the bar.

I have also been totally fascinated with the tiki carving club and wonder if I could do that but there isn't a tree that big anywhere around me as they get blown down before they get that big, except in the parks and I doubt it's a good idea to go into a park and chop down a tree to drag home. We have Osage Orange, but it's hard as a rock and lots of knots and leaks creosote for a long time.

I've found drinks I'd like to try and have copied a lot of those and even enjoyed reading about the wild garnish contest. I'd still like to find some drop-dead eyebrow lifter garnishes I could knock out easily to impress everyone in my tiki bar. (Best thing I've come up with is a skinny frozen pineapple juice popsicle on a bamboo skewer, topped with a wedge of fresh pineapple with the rind still on and a cherry but I worry about some idiot poking their eye out with the skewer)

So I'm enjoying the heck outta myself reading along, but it's all be hard to wade through not knowing all the secret tiki language! But now I have the magic list! AH HA!

Thank you all!
LavaLounger